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Douglas Campbell Burns

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Personal photo taken at age 19

Douglas Campbell Burns

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Douglas Campbell AWMM
  • Surname
    Burns AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    W3537 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    29 May 1920 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
    Wellington New Zealand Public - Yvonne Mary - Child - 27 January 2015 - Family papers
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 56 Mortimer Terrace, Welling AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Post & Telegraph Department employee/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status
    Single/WWII AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband first of Mary and later of Wendy.

    Death notice records he was a POW in North Africa.

    Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    5 September 2011 AWMM
    Age 91 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death Notice: Dominion Post, 7 September 2011 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R21346617
    Further Reference
  • References
    • Dominion Post AWMM
    • Dominion Post AWMM
      Death Notice: Dominion Post, 7 September 2011 AWMM
    • Personnel - Demobilisation - Monthly list of personnel demobilised [Royal New Zealand Navy], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYT 8490 N1/426 (R21465794) AWMM
    • Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12 AWMM
    • Personnel - Complements - Shelly Bay Naval Base - HMNZS Cook. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R21465210) AWMM

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
27 January 2015Yvonne Mary Carterton, New ZealandChild

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